Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0For health, Saint-Gédéon is ahead of 92% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 66% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Quebec as a whole manages 57%. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Saint-Gédéon’s is long: 8.5 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Saint-Gédéon grades A for health.
What stands out about health in Saint-Gédéon
Upbeat about their health
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 14.7 points above the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 64%. Health survey ↓
From Statistics Canada: the health survey and life expectancy for the health region, the deprivation index for the town; distances from the healthcare facilities database and OpenStreetMap.
Saint-Gédéon grades A for health
Each input ranked against Canadian towns of 2,500 or more: the region’s four, the town’s distance to a hospital.
The region’s four figures and the town’s distance to a hospital are each ranked against Canadian towns of 2,500 or more, then averaged.
How the grade works
Health is graded as a regional score, labelled as such: very good or excellent self-rated health, chronic conditions (arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure averaged) and smoking from the Canadian Community Health Survey, each age-standardised so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, and life expectancy at birth, all for the health region. The residents’ average distance to a hospital is the one input measured for the town itself, so towns in one region can still differ.
Self-rated health beats Quebec: 64% very good or excellent, against 56%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health beats Quebec as well: 72% very good or excellent to 64%, with 14% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 1.4 years more here
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Saint-Gédéon’s region’s dot is above the line.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) puts a deprivation score of 3.1 at 80.4 years of life; Saint-Gédéon’s region does better, at 81.8. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (9 of 10), with a median of 80.6. Lower incomes, longer lives: about $69,000 a household, under most regions’, with a life expectancy above most; income and lifespan correlate at only 0.14 across regions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, 2022/2024, by health region. Deprivation: Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation 2021 (situational vulnerability), averaged over each region’s towns by their residents; income: 2021 Census median household income, averaged the same way. The averages and the line are TownRatings calculations.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
Obesity tracks the province: 30% of adults here, 29% across Quebec. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 29% to 22%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight. The anxiety disorder figure is the 2021/2022 estimate: Statistics Canada found the latest too unreliable to publish here.
Getting to hospital from Saint-Gédéon: 8.5 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Saint-Gédéon’s own, not the region’s.
Saint-Gédéon is further out than the provincial norm of 5.3 km in Quebec, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
Hospitals and clinics: Statistics Canada, Open Database of Healthcare Facilities. Pharmacies: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Straight-line distances from each dissemination area, weighted by its 2021 population.
Longest and shortest lives among the 18 regions in Quebec
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 9th of the 18.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Saint-Gédéon’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health in the places around Saint-Gédéon
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Gédéon | 8.5 km | 66% | 81.8 | A |
| Saint-Bruno 7.5 km | 8.4 km | 66% | 81.8 | A |
| Hébertville-Station 7.8 km | 11 km | 66% | 81.8 | A |
| Alma 9.8 km | 2.8 km | 66% | 81.8 | A |
| Métabetchouan--Lac-à-la-Croix 12 km | 2.6 km | 66% | 81.8 | A+ |
| Hébertville 13 km | 15 km | 66% | 81.8 | A |
| Saint-Nazaire 16 km | 9.2 km | 66% | 81.8 | A |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Saint-Gédéon’s regional figures. Residents of Hébertville live further from a hospital, at 15 km against 8.5 km in Saint-Gédéon.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Saint-Gédéon shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
Questions about health in Saint-Gédéon
How healthy is Saint-Gédéon?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out ahead of the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 15%.
How is Saint-Gédéon’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Saint-Gédéon has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Saint-Gédéon from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Saint-Gédéon live: 8.2 km to a clinic, 8.4 km to a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Gédéon?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Saint-Gédéon’s health region only: 83.2 years for women and 80.4 for men (2022/2024).
Sources: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (13-10-0972) · Statistics Canada, life expectancy 2022/2024 (13-10-0988) · Statistics Canada, health regions 2023 (82-402-X) · Statistics Canada, Open Database of Healthcare Facilities · pharmacies © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Statistics Canada, Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation 2021. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).